Jack Harlow Returns to the Studio to Eat Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

oh my god you're blowing my mind today yeah and your eye and everything come on what you got [Music] hey what's going on everybody for first week feast i'm shawn evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today we're joined by jack harlow he's a grammy nominated rapper and founder of the music collective private garden check out his debut studio album that's what they all say which is certified gold and available now jack harlow welcome to the show thanks for having me this is a dream come true like i was telling you i've been manifesting this for a little bit my best friend's uh my best friend's in the green room and y'all have allowed him to eat and lockstep with me so he has a set of wings too but he he put me on the show like four years ago he's like yeah one day we got to do this and now to be here doing it thank you [Music] all right well you ready to get started with this one can't wait [Music] that's what y'all do huh y'all start somebody off real like trick them into thinking it's gonna be a smooth ride and then and then drops yeah yeah yeah this is genius because this is light right here this is something real light so your genesis as an artist really reminds me of the old school rap blueprint more so than the out of nowhere success stories that you hear about on the internet these days you know touring your mixtapes selling and pressing your own cds in school and then building up a local fan base and on your song rendezvous you rap about being eight deep at the show it might only be eight fans thinking back on those early days of touring what would a nightmare show look like like what is a show that you remember as being a real character builder huh so glad you asked character builder is a perfect way to put it it felt like at one point on my gazebo tour night after night i was getting character builders but one that stuck out was the first night of the tour which really set the tone for my expectations it was birmingham alabama there was as many people in the crowd as we had come to the venue with and like a lot of the nights like i liked everybody i brought to mob behind me standing behind the dj booth so we were literally just looking at the same amount of people so i had some humbling shows but they prepared me for this because i had to i had to show out so i think it made me a better performer but i had tons of tons of shows like that is it true that you made a song with your 6th grade teacher mr swain what are you narwhar here we go oh my god you just blew my mind fam um mr swain i can't wait till he sees this yeah it was my science teacher he was really into rap and he was into the fact that i rapped and i was his student aide so i had a whole period where i would come and help him grade papers but really we would just chop it up he was cool as hell um wow he just brought a smile to my face brother he just warmed my soul up that's delicious that's just plain good so alongside rappers like action bronson and lil wayne i'd characterize you as an artist who has some of the best most obscure sports references and you have to be the only rapper ever to name check nfl analyst adam schefter when you reference a name like that is that a tip of the cap to that person or is it just a name that fits a particular rhyme scheme uh it's both adam schefter is like big salute you know i like to reference things i grew up on and you know just like somebody i love for real and i love adam schefter like i think he's a dope analyst and it did fit the rhyme scheme but i was like damn this is gonna be fly because it's gonna be a it's gonna be a little esoteric you know if you know you know he reached out to me too he messaged me he said his kids showed them they're fans of me and they were hyped about it i feel like this heat is creeping up on my veins hold on and then what in your opinion is the most clever jack harlow sports reference i really like the route 66 one though i really like um know my name ring a bell like raja from the city like rondo rajan but i'm from the white side like hassan i feel like that got slept on i mean people know about it but like i freestyled that too i was in the booth i was in miami and i did that line off the cuff and i remember one of the greatest thrills when you're recording is looking through the glass and watching the people you're with react to the things you're doing live and that's when it becomes a true like performing aspect that's when the swag comes out everything and just when i said that line and everybody there was like just hard and then i got to see hassan react to it in a post game interview it was dope [Music] no i can't handle but it's hot how you doing in there herb this is the hottest one that far pretty sneaky too for a three spot this season that's real it's delicious too i think i'll take another bite so i read a fascinating deep dive analysis on billboard hits over the last 20 years which concluded that songs and song titles have gotten significantly shorter in the internet age i've met artists i've met artists who obsess about industry data watching and then others who don't care at all where do you fall on that like are you somebody who dives into analytics and if so what information interests you sometimes what people are reacting to i don't want to get too mathematic with the music because i'm always trying to push for a feeling and if you intellectualize it too much like you can go in there and suffocate it without a feeling so that's why you know that stuff interests me but i wouldn't say i'm somebody that's like keeping up you know what i mean you're an artist who seems picky about production what are some of the non-negotiables or specific things that you look for or listen for when you're picking out a bee you're a damn good interviewer i'll take it i think what you grow up listening to affect the choices you make i have certain grooves and tempos i'm attracted to that i think people can see patterns in but i love groovy stuff that's one thing i could say i love things that just got more of a spin to it as opposed to like an up and down bounce i like more of a groove you know what i mean just smooth stuff that's what i really like what's the secret to a good hip hop ad lib and do you have a personal favorite of your own the best ones come totally instinctually so you listening back to the verse and you listen to what you said and you're reacting to it that's all it is so i think that's the real secret and just finding those pockets where it makes sense like i'm i don't think there's anything wrong with it i'm not someone that loves putting ad-libs over top of my vocals and so that's why i don't do a ton of ad-libs but i try to pick them where they're selective just stuff that makes sense but i have go-to's my fans always say i do a lot of that and like i like to do like percussive stuff like stuff that just kind of like sounds like a hi-hat or airy stuff it's like little stuff that just decorates it a little bit you know what i mean i know what you mean putting the sauce on it speaking of are you ready to move on here to the next one the los calientes barbacoa oh yeah delicious my lips are hot might be the best tasting one damn jack of the four we'll take that you are funny so you are as you put it a kentucky boy to the death get it through your head till it's [ __ ] embedded so as to my knowledge the only person that we've ever had representing louisville we're hoping to get a jack harlow city guide to derby city directly from jack harlow the louisville slugger museum overrated or underrated underrated that's how i feel so if you went to public school in louisville you took field trips there and you'd walk out with a little mini bat so i got a number love for the slugger museum which is the superior regional soda ale8 or ski hey late easily i forgot what ski was when you first said it it's coming back to me now but l81 is he's gonna love that my boy in there listen he's a la one stand um yeah i grew up with la one in the house so my dad had bottles in the fridge which is the superior annual event for castle or the great steamboat race it depends on your interests i suppose if you're a steamboat enthusiast it goes without saying but forecastle for me i mean like i grew up going to it and wanted to perform at it and then i eventually got to so hometown festival is special who's your all-time favorite university of louisville basketball player and why terence williams alpha dog confidence just a fly player like athletic he had a good body his physique was fire like just a prototypical small forward build i just thought it was dope all right jack are you ready to move on here halfway mark ginger goat here in the five spot and you're doing great ginger goat eh let's see what this is heading for [Music] it must be ginger in there for real huh mm-hmm i bet herman's liking that okay jack we have a recurring segment on our show called explain that gram where we do a deep dive on our guest instagram pull interesting pictures that need more context so we'll put the picture up here on the monitor you just tell us the bigger story do you have a favorite piece of memorabilia or frame plaque on the wall when you visited hitsville usa i think i saw the tracks in my tears plaque in there i just liked how the plaques looked a little different from how they look now they were a lot more stripped down and minimal yeah it was just dope to see how plaques wear they're so dressed up now you know they have pictures and frames and the other achievements included and spotify stats on them and stuff and it was just like boom plaque fact over with so it was cool to see those all right up next here you are with cole bennett happy birthday cole it's today is it really it is shout out to cole shout out lyrical lemonade what's special about him as a music video director like why is he so sought after by so many young artists and hip hop for one he's a taste maker so his cosign means a lot and he's broken a lot of artists but aside from that you know there's some real talent there he blew me away when we shot this video not to say that i didn't think he was talented before we did it but admittedly i think i was more intrigued by the platform and then i actually worked worked with him and he put the was popping video together and it was the first video i've ever gotten that i got the first draft and i was like i don't even know what to tell you like i don't have no no i'm a note person i'm very particular like you're calling me picky i am so he sent me the what's popping video on the first draft i was like this is gonna this is gonna change my life i could feel it and it was crazy so he just has a vision man he's talented um quality individual happy birthday [Music] something light y'all better turn these up man i'm feeling good you are a good man you say that now you know i'm just trying to convince myself of it because this is hot none of that i can't bear it up okay i'll take another bite so you once tweeted y'all really don't know i'm a cenophile my final form is as a rotten tomatoes writer how do you think being an artist yourself might affect your perspective as a movie reviewer like do you think that as someone who's had their own art dissected by music critics do you think that you'd be more deferential to filmmakers or do you think you'd be a savage in the reviews huh i love a question i'd like to think that i would take my perspective with me sometimes when people talk negative around sometimes when people talk negative about celebrities around me or they speak on controversies and they have an opinion it irks me because i know how that feels so i think on a similar note i would take that with me with that i would be like i would think about what it's like to create because sometimes i do look at critics and i'm like what a [ __ ] you are like tell the critics shut up like my show is on yeah i'm like it takes no bravery you know to critique not to say it's not an art but [Music] oh god wow creeps up on you which jack harlow single do you think would make for the best short film adaptation this should have been a first-wing question what the hell is this about that's how we stack the deck that's how we stack the deck jack it's becoming more and more jesus i'm seeing the system adaptation of a song [Music] four left eh four left are you ready to move on to that next yeah [ __ ] the short film talk let's keep going let's just gas pedal gas pedal [Music] yeah wait till the next one it looks bad i don't like the complexion of that one [Music] so a lot of debates about the best mcs center on bars but a voice is also a major factor in which rappers separate themselves from the pack and i've heard you attribute your own breakthrough in the game to finding your voice can you talk through that evolution mystery bro that milk is not like that yeah almond doesn't quite hit it doesn't um yeah i think one i started before i hit puberty i started literally recording into a mic so i used to get made fun of because you could tell my nuts hadn't dropped my voice was so high [Music] and um so the shift i got really blessed going into puberty it got deeper i remember andre 3000 talking about how he was with somebody in organized noise and he was in the basement he was like bruh stop doing that rap voice just talk just say the lyrics just talk them he said he went in the booth and he changed everything for him he said hey click that's kind of what's happening for me and i'm learning to fine-tune it because i don't always want it to be conversational you got to inject energy in the right moments but i found when i started talking the way i'm talking to you on the mic it worked wonders too much of an inflection's hard to buy into and you know it's not uncommon if you dig into the crates for a lot of a lot of mcs they're early work you'll oftentimes hear a higher pitched tone is there a reason for that so i think a deeper voice can represent comfort your comfortability on the record i'm around 2018 people started to say you sound so comfortable you sound like you don't give a [ __ ] on the song earlier on trying to prove something you're in that nasal zone you're you're up here like chip on your shoulder talk once you're getting that covers on you just talking [Music] this next one is the bomb beyond insanity hey man don't be targeted like that it looks like a problem look at this thing yeah starving herb [Music] immediate that boy is disrespectful that is disrespectful right there [Music] does it hit you different do you get to a point after doing this that it's not as hot as it was the first time so i think you know i'll know what to expect i've eaten this wing for the internet's amusement literally 200 times over the last six years so it's not something that i'm not used to i don't expect but you never get used to the bomb beyond insanity every episode is a labor for me for the record can you describe your relationship with ranch i saw that you had a whole ranch flavor wish i had some right now brother i love ranch could use it right now don't know why you didn't have it well you know when joey diaz was on the show he brought blue cheese and he draws a very hard line in the sand about how much he cares about blue cheese meanwhile when vince staples was on the show he brought his own bottle of ranch do you think that there's a need to pick one side of the other blue cheese or ranch or can you go both ways hey bro this is not even fun bro yeah this is not even careful around you guys [Music] did you catch it i don't know i don't know yes you want to take a break no come on hell yeah i said i was gonna do this i'm not gonna look at you but i'm gonna do it come on i got you i got you blue ranch ranch ranch that's what you got oh my god i tried to open it bro what's special about the applebee's on bardstown road and the highlands this tin you can't even tug on my heart strings right now brother that would have three wings ago that would have made a lot to me are the other two hotter so here if you can handle that you can handle any wing you can handle any wing dude do you want to gas pedal it to the next one no let's talk about applebee's come on okay let's talk about apple we should go in there we should go in there and get these decadent shakes and that's not my adjective that's what it said on the menu we used to get these shakes after school after football games we just been to be in the booth tormenting this staff put a time oh i can't open my eyes bro it should have been a conversation about not touching eyes i know it seems like common knowledge but damn i should have known it's only painful it's not dangerous right all right so this is next i got one for you my lazy guy too i can't [ __ ] see well this next one is birth go ahead if you can't with the eye patch you used to have the eye patch over there you're on your [ __ ] you are a man my god you're blowing my mind today yeah and your eye and everything huh come on what you got so this next one is the is the scorpion disco in the nine spot what a [ __ ] baby oh boy i gotta stop looking at things yeah you want me to eat this for only if you do oh my god so now that video games have been a part of your life since the very beginning back when used to record your earliest tracks on the usb microphone that they give you with guitar hero and you're featured on that call of duty trailer where you crash a helicopter with ac dc's thunderstruck driving the background music how do you distill the experience of doing your own stunts on that shoot well they put me on a cable with drewski and that was a unique experience to be able to say i did cable work lifted me up dropped me down green screen it was overall a wonderful experience is there an on stage stunt that you're most proud of like a balcony dive or crowd surfing episode that that you remember like it was yesterday one time on stage dove i did a show when i was a senior in high school and i sold it out like a 300 cap and i dove off the stage but the stage was three feet tall i heard this girl's head landed on her i felt bad she wasn't badly hurt but it was like a bad attempt i haven't done nothing since no reckless all right jack harlow what do you want come on this is the last dab we call it the last dab because it's tradition around here to put a little extra on the last wing you don't have to if you don't want to i want to whoa i won't eat all of it please don't was there a dab or a lot yeah that's a lot that's a lot that's a lot all right brother no one's gonna tell me i didn't go through this you went through it like a soldier and thankfully and thankfully jack harlow we've reached the epilogue of our spicy feast together we've talked about your career the xenophile side of jack harlow and your love of ranch hey but i know that no matter where this industry takes you forever your home will be kentucky so with that in mind i want to play a quick name association game where i'll shout out some of the sauces that we've had on the gauntlet today and you just tell me the first famous kentuckian that comes to mind scorpion disco jennifer lawrence the last dab of apollo the one that you just ate johnny just sounds classic the bomb beyond insanity static major recipes and then the classic george clooney well there you have it a gauntlet for the ages with jack harlow somehow some way he made it through all the way to the end and now jack there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you my friend this camera that camera that camera let the people know what you have going on in your life you see it you see it cyclops listen man that's what they all say my debut album out now no regrets i'm happy i did this it's no [ __ ] i thought it was gonna be i thought it was gonna be less than what it was it's everything more great job great job i got my best friend in the green room he when we were when we were still in high school i think he showed me this he's like man one day you're gonna do this i'm talking four four years ago maybe maybe five i don't know right around when this started he's like one day we gonna do this and i said okay when we do it you gotta eat them with me so i think they're taking him some wings in the green room to eat lots of stuff i really want to say like this is a dream come true for real we manifested this moment so i'm really excited to be here i'm happy that i can share it with you hell yeah hey what's going on hot ones fans this is sean evans checking in with a very exciting hot sauce update los calientes barbacoa it's finally here baby this sauce right here evokes all the flavors of barbecue but then with a smoky mix of serrano and habanero chilies perfect for slow roasting meats perfect for slathering on burritos grilling vegetables get your hands on los 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Id: ECsVN3AEJsQ

Length: 24min 44sec (1484 seconds)

Published: Thu May 27 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/epicevan]

"we used to go in and get these decadent shakes. and that's not my adjective, that's what it said on the menu"

[u/DJDiksonMouf]

finally back in the studio! hell yeah the at home ones just didn't do it for me

[u/BigDZ4SheZ]

This is so much better with them back in the studio

I think when the celebs would do this at home they wouldn’t get as much hot sauce as they do when they are in the studio.

[u/Tacanboyzz]

If anyone dont know he's on the Killer Remix with Em and Cordae

https://twitter.com/Eminem/status/1397945733194649605

[u/Flushy_]

Nice interview, I’m not that much into this guy’s music but his personality is very cool

Edit: it’s nice to see interviews back in the studio, it’s so much better. I Hope this season gonna have some awesome celebrities

[u/LetterToAThief]

Sus comments incoming

[u/boofheadfred]

watching Sean's face slowly turn redder and redder through the episode always cracks me up

[u/paranoidandromeda1]

The interviews in the studio are SO much better than the ones over Zoom.

Kinda wish we got the really good interviews like the Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jessica Alba ones in the studio.

[u/Moosepowers]

Fuck that was great